Swimming at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre backstroke

Men's 50 metre backstroke
at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Men's 50 metre backstroke ; at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates	3 August (heats and semifinals); 4 August (final)
Competitors	53 from 28 nations
Winning time	24.00
Medalists
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The Men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the 2018 European Aquatics Championships was held on 3 and 4 August 2018.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record European record	Liam Tancock	Great Britain	24.04	Rome	2 August 2009
Championship record	Camille Lacourt	France	24.07	Budapest	12 August 2010

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
4 August	Final	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russia	24.00	WR, CR

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 3 August at 10:24.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	5	Shane Ryan	Ireland	24.32	Q, NR
2	5	4	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russia	24.58	Q
3	5	5	Robert Glință	Romania	24.59	Q
4	6	4	Vladimir Morozov	Russia	24.65	Q
5	5	6	Christian Diener	Germany	24.89	Q
6	4	4	Jérémy Stravius	France	24.92	Q
7	4	6	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	24.95	Q
8	6	3	Sergey Fesikov	Russia	25.01
9	4	5	Jonatan Kopelev	Israel	25.02	Q
10	4	3	Apostolos Christou	Greece	25.05	Q
11	5	7	Conor Ferguson	Ireland	25.08	Q
12	6	2	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	25.17	Q
13	6	7	Kacper Stokowski	Poland	25.22	Q
14	5	2	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	25.25	Q
15	5	3	Nikita Ulyanov	Russia	25.29
16	4	7	Thierry Bollin	Switzerland	25.40	Q
17	6	1	Nicholas Pyle	Great Britain	25.49	Q
18	5	8	Thomas Ceccon	Italy	25.50	Q
19	4	0	Stanislas Huille	France	25.54
20	3	2	Ralf Tribuntsov	Estonia	25.60
20	4	9	Gytis Stankevičius	Lithuania	25.60
22	3	3	Karl Luht	Estonia	25.62
23	4	8	Björn Seeliger	Sweden	25.65
24	3	5	David Gamburg	Israel	25.68
25	3	4	Nikolaos Sofianidis	Greece	25.69
25	6	0	Paul-Gabriel Bedel	France	25.69
27	3	6	Markus Lie	Norway	25.73
28	5	1	Georgios Spanoudakis	Greece	25.74
29	3	8	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	25.78
30	4	2	Kamil Kaźmierczak	Poland	25.80
31	6	8	Maksim Dzialendzik	Belarus	25.81
32	4	1	Viktar Staselovich	Belarus	25.82
33	3	7	Gabriel Lópes	Portugal	25.85
34	2	5	Başlakov İskender	Turkey	25.99
35	5	0	Gustav Hökfelt	Sweden	26.01
36	2	6	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	26.16
37	5	9	Tomáš Franta	Czech Republic	26.26
38	3	1	Girts Feldbergs	Latvia	26.22
39	3	0	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	26.23
40	1	6	Ziv Kalontarov	Israel	26.30
41	2	4	Ümitcan Güreş	Turkey	26.41
42	6	9	Andrei-Mircea Anghel	Romania	26.50
43	3	9	Armin Lelle	Estonia	26.53
44	1	4	Ege Başer	Turkey	26.59
45	2	8	Anton Lončar	Croatia	26.62
46	2	2	Niko Mäkelä	Finland	26.66
47	2	7	Rasim Gör	Turkey	26.82
48	2	9	Nikola Acin	Serbia	26.83
49	2	3	Adam Černek	Slovakia	26.96
50	2	1	Marko-Matteus Langel	Estonia	27.33
51	2	0	Sergey Kuznetsov	Finland	27.35
52	1	5	Matthew Galea	Malta	28.14
53	1	3	Dren Ukimeraj	Kosovo	29.78
—	6	6	Richárd Bohus	Hungary	Did not start

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 3 August at 17:25.^[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russia	24.25	Q, WJR, NR
2	5	Vladimir Morozov	Russia	24.29	Q
3	3	Jérémy Stravius	France	24.88	Q
4	6	Jonatan Kopelev	Israel	24.92	Q
5	2	Conor Ferguson	Ireland	24.99
6	7	Kacper Stokowski	Poland	25.46
7	1	Thierry Bollin	Switzerland	25.47
8	8	Thomas Ceccon	Italy	25.50

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Robert Glință	Romania	24.12	Q
2	4	Shane Ryan	Ireland	24.57	Q
3	6	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	24.66	Q
4	2	Apostolos Christou	Greece	24.96	Q
5	7	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	24.99
6	1	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	25.09
7	8	Nicholas Pyle	Great Britain	25.10
8	3	Christian Diener	Germany	25.13

Final

The final was held on 4 August at 18:18.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russia	24.00	WR
	4	Robert Glință	Romania	24.55
	6	Shane Ryan	Ireland	24.64
4	3	Vladimir Morozov	Russia	24.69
5	7	Jérémy Stravius	France	24.83
6	2	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	25.04
7	8	Apostolos Christou	Greece	25.14
8	1	Jonatan Kopelev	Israel	25.41

References

[1] Schedule

[2] Start list

[3] Heats results

[4] Semifinals results

[5] Final results

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